Climate Change and Trade Policy : From Mutual Destruction to Mutual Support

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dc.creatorMesserlin, Patrick A.
dc.date2012-03-19T18:41:08Z
dc.date2012-03-19T18:41:08Z
dc.date2010-07-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:09:52Z
dc.descriptionContrary to what is still often believed, the climate and trade communities have a lot in common: a common problem (a global "public good"), common foes (vested interests using protection for slowing down climate change policies), and common friends (firms delivering goods, services, and equipment that are both cleaner and cheaper). They have thus many reasons to buttress each other. The climate community would enormously benefit from adopting the principle of "national treatment," which would legitimize and discipline the use of carbon border tax adjustment and the principle of "most-favored nation," which would ban carbon tariffs. The main effect of this would be to fuel a dual world economy of clean countries trading between themselves and dirty countries trading between themselves at a great cost for climate change. And the trade community would enormously benefit from a climate community capable of designing instruments that would support the adjustment efforts to be made by carbon-intensive firms much better than instruments such as antidumping or safeguards, which have proved to be ineffective and perverse. That said, implementing these principles will be difficult. The paper focuses on two key problems. First, the way carbon border taxes are defined has a huge impact on the joint outcome from climate change, trade, and development perspectives. Second, the multilateral climate change regime could easily become too complex to be manageable. Focusing on carbon-intensive sectors and building "clusters" of production processes considered as having "like carbon-intensity" are the two main ways for keeping the regime manageable. Developing them in a multilateral framework would make them more transparent and unbiased.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/3862
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-5378
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415740
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relationPolicy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5378
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectALLOCATION
dc.subjectALUMINUM
dc.subjectANNUAL EMISSIONS
dc.subjectAUCTIONS
dc.subjectBANKING SECTOR
dc.subjectBENEFICIARIES
dc.subjectBOILERS
dc.subjectBUSINESS PRACTICES
dc.subjectCAPS
dc.subjectCARBON
dc.subjectCARBON ALLOWANCES
dc.subjectCARBON CONTENT
dc.subjectCARBON EMISSIONS
dc.subjectCARBON FOOTPRINT
dc.subjectCARBON LEAKAGE
dc.subjectCARBON MARKET
dc.subjectCARBON POLICIES
dc.subjectCARBON PRICES
dc.subjectCARBON TAX
dc.subjectCARBON TAXES
dc.subjectCARBON TRADING
dc.subjectCHEMICALS
dc.subjectCLEANER TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE EFFORTS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
dc.subjectCLIMATE POLICY
dc.subjectCLOSED ECONOMY
dc.subjectCO2
dc.subjectCOAL
dc.subjectCOAL MINING
dc.subjectCOATINGS
dc.subjectCOKE OVEN
dc.subjectCOMMON MARKET
dc.subjectCONVERGENCE
dc.subjectCOPPER
dc.subjectCUTTING EMISSIONS
dc.subjectDAMAGES
dc.subjectDETERGENTS
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRY
dc.subjectDEVELOPING ECONOMIES
dc.subjectDOMESTIC CARBON
dc.subjectDURABLE
dc.subjectECONOMIC ACTIVITY
dc.subjectECONOMIC ANALYSIS
dc.subjectECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectECONOMIC INTEGRATION
dc.subjectECONOMIC WELFARE
dc.subjectELECTRICITY
dc.subjectEMERGING ECONOMIES
dc.subjectEMISSION
dc.subjectEMISSION CUTS
dc.subjectEMISSIONS CUTS
dc.subjectEMISSIONS TRADING
dc.subjectENERGY POLICY
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
dc.subjectEQUIPMENT
dc.subjectEQUIPMENTS
dc.subjectEXPORT PROCESSING ZONES
dc.subjectEXPORTER
dc.subjectEXPORTERS
dc.subjectFATS
dc.subjectFERROUS METALS
dc.subjectFISCAL POLICIES
dc.subjectFISCAL POLICY
dc.subjectFOREIGN FIRMS
dc.subjectFORESTRY
dc.subjectFRAUD
dc.subjectFRAUDS
dc.subjectFREE ALLOWANCES
dc.subjectFREE TRADE
dc.subjectFREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
dc.subjectGAS EXTRACTION
dc.subjectGLOBAL CLIMATE
dc.subjectGLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectGLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS
dc.subjectGLOBAL MARKETS
dc.subjectGLOBAL TRADE
dc.subjectGLOBAL WARMING
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GASES
dc.subjectHARMONIZATION
dc.subjectIMPORTS
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME LEVEL
dc.subjectINCOME TAX
dc.subjectINDIVIDUAL FIRMS
dc.subjectINSTRUMENT
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL BANK
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL TRADE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
dc.subjectINVESTING
dc.subjectIRON
dc.subjectLEGAL FRAMEWORK
dc.subjectLEVEL PLAYING FIELD
dc.subjectLEVIES
dc.subjectLEVY
dc.subjectLIBERALIZATION
dc.subjectLIBERALIZATION OF TRADE
dc.subjectMANGANESE
dc.subjectMARKET ACCESS
dc.subjectMARKET SHARE
dc.subjectNATURAL GAS
dc.subjectNEGATIVE IMPACT
dc.subjectNICKEL
dc.subjectOIL PRICE
dc.subjectOILS
dc.subjectOUTPUT
dc.subjectOUTPUTS
dc.subjectOUTSOURCING
dc.subjectPAINTS
dc.subjectPESTICIDES
dc.subjectPETROLEUM PRODUCTS
dc.subjectPHARMACEUTICALS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPOLLUTERS
dc.subjectPOTASSIUM
dc.subjectPP
dc.subjectPRECAUTIONARY APPROACH
dc.subjectPRICE BAND
dc.subjectPRICE INCREASE
dc.subjectPRICE SIGNAL
dc.subjectREBATES
dc.subjectREGIONAL TRADE
dc.subjectRENEWABLE ENERGY
dc.subjectRISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectSMALL COUNTRIES
dc.subjectSO2
dc.subjectSULFUR
dc.subjectSULFUR DIOXIDE
dc.subjectTAX POLICIES
dc.subjectTAX RATE
dc.subjectTAX RATES
dc.subjectTAX REGIME
dc.subjectTAX REGIMES
dc.subjectTAX SYSTEM
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE
dc.subjectTRADE LIBERALIZATION
dc.subjectTRADE PROTECTION
dc.subjectTRADE REGIME
dc.subjectTRADE REGIMES
dc.subjectTRADING PARTNERS
dc.subjectTRADING SYSTEM
dc.subjectTRANSACTION
dc.subjectTRANSACTION COSTS
dc.subjectTREATIES
dc.subjectTREATY
dc.subjectUNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
dc.subjectURANIUM
dc.subjectVALUATION
dc.subjectWORLD ECONOMIES
dc.subjectWORLD ECONOMY
dc.subjectWORLD TRADE
dc.subjectZINC
dc.titleClimate Change and Trade Policy : From Mutual Destruction to Mutual Support

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